Blog post 3- Parker Klebenow- Flu epidemic 1918

Notes

-The worst epidemic known to the modern world was the flu epidemic of 1918

-The epidemic killed nearly 12,500,000 people in India. In the U.S.A. 550,000 people died.

-Influenza is a virus that goes to person to person using the air which they breath

-The reason so many people died is because we didn't realize it was a sub type virus that attacked. A sub type named H1N1.

-The pandemic was thought to occur when returning troops from WWI came back to separate camps. They brought the virus with them.

-In August 1918, a new virus emerged and attacked, it was called Pneumonia.

-Pneumonia developed quickly and usually caused death 2 days after symptoms.

-Six days after the first case in Camp Devens, Massachusetts, there were 6,674 cases.

Questions

-How did Pneumonia develop from the original virus, and why was it so deadly?

-How did the virus epidemic end? Did it kill itself off? Or was a vaccine developed?

-Why were more people killed in countries other than that of the U.S.A. or Britain or other developed countries?

Link:http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9002537?query=Flu%201918&ct=null

Global Warming Leading To Animal Extinction

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&source=gale&idigest=8de64512480f8c58026cd9fc2834cb47&prodId=GIC&userGroupName=hins30136&tabID=T006&docId=A207998887&type=retrieve&contentSet=IAC-Documents&version=1.0
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/invertebrates/index.html
 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT

INFO:

• Tropical species are affected more by the narrow temperature range of their typically warm climate
• Tropical rain forests contain most species of animals and plants needed to sustain the world's population, but global warming has already upset the natural biodiversity of the ecosystem
• As populations grow around the world, so does consumption. In the densest areas of the world, the elimination of animals that feed on disease vectors, such as mosquitoes and flies, adds to our growing human health problem.
• Global warming is predicted to threaten a large number of our plants and animals with extinction
• One example of an animal shifting its habitat because of climate change is the Edith's checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha wrighti). Found in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, the butterfly during the past 25 years has moved from lower to higher elevations, and from southern locations to northern ones.
• There are about 925 of the bears in the province, but the population is estimated to have declined by 22 per cent from 1989 to 2004.
• The main problem facing the bears is that the sea ice on which they hunt seals is melting, cutting the amount of available food. The spring breakup has been occurring earlier in recent years, resulting in a longer ice-free period on Hudson Bay, and increasing the amount of time during which they must depend on body fat gained through winter foraging.

QUESTIONS:
1.) What are the top species that arte being effected by global warming the most?
2.) What places are the animals migrating to to avoid extinction
3.) What factors in  the way us people live lead to global warming getting this bad?

Log 3, cost of selling

COST OF SELLING PROCESS

http://search.proquest.com/docview/236295816?accountid=6222

• 1st buy a young horse 
• $25,000- horse is not trained, riden, or showed
• 2nd you must get the horse approved and registered
•  $100,000- make sure he is healthy and able to become a good worker
• 3rd you have to decide on a cost to sell him based on his performance records, pedigree, and breed

• show record: under the horses name, in order to track the show results on the horse and rider

• What breeds cost the most?
• What are the deciding facts for which horses are good showers?

Pyroclastic Flows

• The temperature of the volcanic gases can reach about 600 to 700 °C. 
• The velocity of a flow often exceeds 60 miles per hour and may attain speeds as great as 100 miles per hour.
• Reaching such temperatures and velocities, pyroclastic flows can be extremely dangerous.
• Pyroclastic flows have their origin in explosive volcanic eruptions, when a violent expansion of gas shreds escaping magma into small particles, creating what are known as pyroclastic fragments.  
• Pyroclastic materials are classified according to their size, dust , ash, cinders, blocks , and bombs. 
• Both the incandescent pyroclastic particles and the rolling clouds of dust that rise above them actively liberate more gas. 
• The expansion of these gases accounts for the nearly frictionless character of the flow as well as its great mobility and destructive power.

• What other factors make a volcano so dangerous?

• ProQuest Platinum (Database)

• The transition from sedimentation to flood volcanism in the Kangerlussuaq Basin, East Greenland: Basaltic pyroclastic volcanism during initial Palaeogene continental break-up (Title)

INFORMATION ON MAYANS AND AZTECS

• Mayans live in Central America
• Aztecs believe in gods
• Aztecs believed in a lot of human sacrifices
• Mayans were very well in to astronomy
• Mayans believe in offering blood
• Mayans and Aztecs have many differences

1. What kind of things did the Aztecs and Mayans do to entertain themselves?

2. What type of religion do they follow?

• Mayans live in Central America
• Aztecs believe in gods
• Aztecs believed in a lot of human sacrifices
• Mayans were very well in to astronomy
• Mayans believe in offering blood
• Mayans and Aztecs have many differences

1. What kind of things did the Aztecs and Mayans do to entertain themselves?

2. What type of religion do they follow?

Belgium Warmblood

ProQuest Platinum
Wylde about Europe


http://search.proquest.com/docview/236212223/135101C794DF13191A/3?accountid=6222


The Belgium Warmblood is a classic European horse. It is a horse bred for show jumping. Rather large in size, which makes it have a smooth gate.  


COST:$20,000-75,000+ (from Europe)
DICIPLINES: Dressage, Jumping


What I learned:
-Peter spent many years working with different trainers in order to gain his fame.
-According to champion show jumper Peter Wylde, "your only as good as your horse." 
-Wylde was unaware of how competitive show jumping was in Europe.  He thought that it was more competivite in the US, which isnt true
- Got to the final four of the World Equestrian games.
-Peter had always had money troubles.  
- An offer came up to go to New York for a financial job, instead of going to world. 
- DeNiro was his first horse. 
-In 2002 Peter had his own line of training horses, he trained 15. 
-Peter is now in Europe and has no immediate plans to return to the US.  He wants to continue his training in Europe to become an even better rider.  Plus, Belgium Warmbloods are native to Europe and are the best European riding animal.  




1. Why are Belgium Warmbloods so expensive?
2. What makes horses expensive?
3. How many different breeds of horses are there?

Peter Wylde and his warm bloods. 

Peter and Can Can

What are Genetics?

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=9110582

I learned form this article that..

• Heredity remained a secert until the 19th century, when the studies of Genetics developed
• Heredity-The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
• I found it interesting that the study of peoples genes did not make anyone curious and how the research on it started so late.
• Genetics determine who you are
• Your DNA makes you who you are
• Genes are made up Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid
• Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid-
• 1.a self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes.
• 2. The fundamental and distinctive characteristics of someone or somthing, esp. when regarded as unchangeable.

This article made me think 

• Is it possible to change your DNA?
• Is there such thing as a DNA transfusion?
• Is it possible to be born with half of a chromosome?

 INFORMATION ON MAYANS AND AZTECS


1. Mayans toke place from A.D (300 - 600).
2. Mayans were a great influence upon many people.
3. The Mayans were a hierarchy - They had rankings.
4. Mayans enjoyed playing sports.
5. Mayans were very involved in arts and culture.
6. Aztecs lasted from A.D (1200-1250).
7. They had strong religious beliefs.
8. Aztecs were also very involved in culture and sculptures.

Why did the Aztecs last from such a short time period?
What were some of the different sculptures the Aztecs and the Mayans made?
What were some of the sports that they played?

Prices for Horses

IMPORT/ BUYING HORSES AROUND THE WORLD

• import horse from out of the country must remain in quarantine in the U.S.
• price ranges: low 5 figures- under $40K
• mid 5 figures- $40K -$60K
• high 5 figures- $60 -$75K
• mid 6 figures- $75-$100K
• high 6 figures-$100K and over
• Different areas of different places specialize in breeding different breeds

• shoeing: Farriers job of putting new shoes on the horse

• How long do the horses have to stay in quarentine?
• What is the most popular breed to buy in Europe?
• What is the most popular breed to buy in America?
• What breed is the most expensive, breed and dicipline based?

http://search.proquest.com/docview/211726975?accountid=6222

Should the japenssee kill the dolphins?

1. They say its their right and part of their cluture to kill the dolphins but is it really right to kill inasant animals that are sold for food when they are high in mercury and can posion you?
2. Why did they start killing the dolphins; what came of the idea to kill dolphines for product?
3. Will the dolphins go extinct if they keep killing them?
4. Are they killing the dolphins kindly?; with care?

I have watched the movie The Cove and it was unbelieveable, the Japanesse were killing dolphins for merchendise. But who would want to eat dolphin meat? Even after dolphin meat was tested to be high in mercury and it can cause a certian disease that can make you go blind and can make you lose your ability to walk or move. But the Japanesse argued that killing dolphins are just like how Americans kill chicken for food or fish for food or anything else, they also say that it is their cluture to kill these animals.

Climate in Australia

Interesting facts:

• Australia is seperated by cold waters on the south and warm waters in the north


• it is the flatest, most arid, least inhabited continent


• Part of Australia lies in the tropics, and the other part lies in the subtropics


• The few low mountains are vital for precipitation in Ausrtalia


• Australia is divided into three topographic regions: Western Plateau, the Central Lowlands, and the Eastern Highlands


• Intermittenly= ceasing, or at certain times


• Australia has many caves, and rivers that are seasonal


• It obtains the Great Barrier Reef, which is the most extensive coral reef


• extensive: ongoing

Questions:

• How do these climates affect the animals?


• What climates attract different animals?

What are Genetics?

1.How are genetics passed down
2.Do genetics really determine who you are?
3.Do genes have anything to do with genetics?
4.What does hereity have anything to do with genetics?

I know that genetics are some what apart of who you and your children are im jus really interested on how and why.

What Are Some Different Tribes?
How Do They Live?

What Are Some Specific Tribes And How Do They Live?

Global Warming

HOW DOES GLOBAL WARMING EFFECT PEOPLE AND ANIMALS?


http://www.school.eb.com/elementary/article?articleId=353185

• The average temperature on earth is slowly increasing. this trend is known as global warming
• Greenhouse: a glass house where plants grow, glass lets light in and keeps heat from escaping; ythis trapped heat keeps the plants warm even when its cold outside.
• The Earth's atmosphere traps energy from the sun, Carbon Dioxide and other green house gasses do the trapping.
• Without certain gases trapping energy, too much heat would go back into space and living things could not survive.
• As more green house gasses get into the air, they also trap more heat-->which leads to global warming.
• Green House effect: warming of the earth's surface and the air above it.
• Fossil Fuels: remains of organisms that lived long ago.(oil, gas, coal, exc..)
• People burn fossil fuels to power factories, run cars, produce electricity, and heat houses. As fossil fuels burn, they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
• Also, people have cut down many forests. Trees use carbon dioxide when they make their own food. Fewer trees mean that less carbon dioxide is being taken out of the atmosphere.

QUESTIONS: 1.) What types of animals are being effected by the cutting down of trees?

                         2.) What materials can citizens use instead of fossil fuels to power things?

                         3.) In the future what is going to happen if things keep getting worse?

Volcanoes

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-22839
1.  “Mount Merapi, which rises to 9,551 feet (2,911 metres) near Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta) in central Java, erupts frequently—often causing extensive destruction to roads, fields, and villages but always greatly benefiting the soil”
2. Ash clouds that circled the Earth decreased solar radiation and produced spectacular sunsets for more than a year.
3. Volcanoes have overall caused great destruction in society, but while destroying homes and displacing many residents, volcanoes help the soil and and produce wonderful sunsets.
http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9108777
1.  The list of hazards associated with volcanic eruptions is long and varied: lava flows, explosions, toxic gas clouds, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, avalanches, tsunamis, and mudflows. In addition to these immediate dangers, volcanic activity produces secondary effects such as property damage, crop loss, and perhaps changes to weather and climate. These hazards and long-term effects are described in this section.
2.  Provide a strong source of geothermal energy
3.  Volcanic Gases created our atmosphere
4.  Volcanic activity allows the formation of new islands to occur.


What are volcanoes capable of?


How do they benefit the environment?


How have volcanoes played a role in the creation of our planet?

Arabian

Horses around the World A-Z

A list of horses that we will be looking at in order to answer the main question.  How do horses in different parts of the world differ in cost, breed, dicipline and popularity?

1. Arabian
2. Belgium Warmblood
3. Canadian Horse
4. Dutch Warmblood
5. East Bulgarian
6. Friesian Horse
7. Gypsy Cob
8. Hackney Horse
9. Irish Draft
10. Jutland
11. Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse
12. Lipizzaner
13. Morgan
14. Newfoundland Pony
15. Oldenburg
16. Paso Fino
17. Quarter Horse
18. Russian Trotter
19. Saddlebred
20. Tennessee Walking Horse
21. Unmol Horse
22. Vladimir Heavy Draft
23. Welsh Pony
24. Xilingol horse
25. Yonaguni
26. Zweibrücker

 These are the 26 different breeds of horses that we will be covering.  

Today we start with my all time favorite, the horse that I own and show, the almighty

ARABIAN HORSE. 

The god of all horses.  The best looking horse anyone could ask for.  

So to get going with the Arabian Horse, I have many connections in the Arabian horse industry.  Often showing around the country, my family and I have made many friends.  The summer of 2010, my family went on vacation on Albuquerque, New Mexico so I could participate in a National Horse show.  It had to have been the last days of competition.  My dad got invited into one of our neighbor barn's trailers.  Now when you think of a horse trailer, you think of some two -horse piece of junk.  We however, think of the most magnificent device to carry livestock ever possible.  Automatic water, heated floors, and even the trailer itself being completely covered in huge photos of people winning. (on the outside)  My father got to go into one of these pieces of art.  He later found out that the man who was showing him the trailer's brother was one of the most hated people in the Arabian Horse industry.  

Today, I found an article on this man.  Here are some key factors to the big "no-no's" in the Arabian Horse industry.  

http://search.proquest.com/docview/403970792/134EDE454B91BB5318E/1?accountid=6222

"He": David Boggs

-He cosmetically altered a horse for a showman ship class. 

-He took out muscles in the tail of Ace of Bey, to make her tail look better. 

- Hafati Elegance (another show name for the horse)  was alleged to have had the fat sucked out of her too-round croup.

- David argued that he did "horse liposuction" on the animal, because the fat was supposedly, cancer like deposits, not fat. 

- At the end of the investigation, Boggs had cosmetically altered 12 horses. 

- The investigation is a big and controversial one in the Arabian industry

- Bogg's judges card and showing licence had been expelled. 

COST: $500-250,000
DICIPLINE: Hunter, Saddle Seat, Western, Endurance, Trail,  Arabian Racing.

 

1-Emma: Animals in Australia.

http://www.school.eb.com/ebi/article-258645

Interesting Information Withtin The Article:

• They have more than 260 different mammals and 4000 species of fish




• Australia is the only place Playpus's are found in the world




• Australia is home to 50 species of Kangaroo's




• Kangaroo's are seen as Australia's symbol and vermin




• One of Australia's most dangerous snakes is the Tiger Snake

Vocabulary:

• Monotremes= egg-laying order of mammals




• Probe= to search or examine thoroughly




• Marsupials= a nonplacental mammal

Questions:

1. What is it about the climate that lets Australia inhabit so many animals?




2. Why is it the only place Platypus's live?

Mythology Eor End of World in 2012

http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-205120?

• Mayan Theories-Floods legends was one way about how the Earth was going to end (most of life forms)
• Native American Theories-"End of the world recurred in a cycle, followed by a new creation."
•  Aztec Theories- There had already been 4 seperate destructions of the world and one more was expected
• Each world ending was marked by the ruler disapearing (In all of them it was the Sun)
• Some mythologies blamed "human wickedness" for the end of the world (ex. the story of Noah and the flood)
• All modern religions look forward to the end of the world, for a new fresh creation to occur
• *Cataclysm*
• Judaism-coming of Messiah announces the end of the world and the "restoration of paradise"

Do ALL religions believe in the end of the world?
How was all mythology created?

PKlebenow Diseases/Outbreaks

How have plagues and outbreaks effected civilization in the past and the present?

1. Do the amount of people killed by the outbreaks make a difference?

2. Are the thought of some diseases more deadly than the diseases themselves?

3. Can the diseases effect the victim's (the civilization's) religious idea? Such as the people feel they are being punished?

I know that the Black Plauge was very devestating to people in the Middle Ages killing thousands. Other modern plauges like the Bird Flu epidemic killed 1 million people or more. Swine Flu was seen as a deadly virus that could start an epidemic but didn't.

How do Volcanoes effect the enviroment?

How do volcanoes help the enviroment other than regenerating the soil?
 How do volcanoes destroy the enviroment?
 Do volcanoes cause a major role in air polution?

They help regenerate nutrients in the soil.  They could destroy roads buildings and other man made structures

Is the World Going to End in 2012?

1. Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
2. How did ancient people (ex.Aztecs) measure time?
3. What caused use to believe the world would end?
4. How is the world supposed to end?
5. When can we doto keep the human race alive if the world ends?
6. What will happen leading up to the world ending?
7. Has the world been predicted to end any other time in past/future? If yes, when/why?

What do I already know about my topic?
-Supposedly it is supposed to end in an apocalypse
-It was predicted by the Mayans that it was ending
-Apparently it was supposed to end in 2000 as well.
-Global warming is supposedly helping cause the world ending.

What Is It like To Live In Native Tribes?

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LIVE IN NATIVE TRIBES?

• What kind of weapons do they use?
• How do they make shelters?
• How do they gather food?
• What kind of ceremonies between different tribes?
• What are some different tribes?

I know that the two tribes the Aztecs and the Mayans where great civilizations.

How does Global Warming effect people and animals?

To answer this overall research question, I plan on answering the following:

1.) Which regions are most affected by global warming?
2.) What things have us humans done to cause globalwarming?
3.) What are some animals that are goping extinct?
4.) How can we prevent/stop global warming from getting even worse?

I already know the basics about global warming. For example I know that it is causing the artic to melt and polar bears are dying because the ice is disappearing. I would like to find out how this all began, like the time period it started in and what incident began it all. I am also curious to find out what types of animals are being affected because of global warming.

How do horses from different parts of the world differ in diciplines, breeding cost, and popularity?

In order to answer this question I plan on answering the following questions:

1. How do costs in different countries differ when purchasing horses?
2. What are the top ten breeds in the U.S.?
3. The main diciplines in different places around the world?
4. What horses are good at which diciplines?

This is already what I know based on this topic:
I know that for show jumping and most dressage the prefered breed for these diciplines are the warmbloods imported from Europe. However, the cost of participating in the sport varies between where you are in the world.  I would to discover just how much it differs and which breeds do more service in different places.   

How do horses in different parts of the world differ in cost, breed, dicipline and popularity?

In order to answer the question, I must ask sub-questions. Questions that partain to a specific topic.

What horses are more expensive?
Are some horses more popular than others?
What breeds of horses are used for different diciplines?
Are horses in different countries more expensive? Are they more expensive because they are popular?

Amazon Rainforest (need research question)

To fully answer my research question I will  use the following questions:
What are the animals in the Amazon?
What do the animals eat?
What are their pretadors?
What is their climate like?

I dont know very much about this topic, but I am pumped to find out more about this subject.

Animals in Australia

To answer my research question (What is life like of animals in Australia) I will use the following questions:

1. What animals live in Australia?
2. What do these animals eat?
3. What are the different species?
4. What is the life style of these animals?
5. What are the threats to these animals?
6. What can we learn from these animals?
7. How can we help these animals?

This is what I already know and what I want to know:

I don't know very much about the topic. I do know that there is a big variety of animals in Australia, and there are many animals that I like. I want to know more about the life of these animals, and what makes Australia the place they inhabit.